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Bretha éitgid ‘Judgments concernings irresponsible acts (?)’

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Early Irish law texts

Early Irish legal tract.

Title
Bretha éitgid
‘Judgments concernings irresponsible acts (?)’
Bretha é(i)tgid.
Manuscripts

The following overview is based on Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 178–180, where he distinguishes between seven manuscript versions, all of them fragmentary, in addition to shorter extracts from the text.

A (incomplete) =
a version whose original arrangement in the manuscript is disturbed. It now comprises the following segments:
Ai =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D v 2 a [s. xiv]
Not in CIH, but edited by Liam Breatnach in Appendix 2 (see the reference below).
Aii =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 3, second part, ff. 13-16 [s. xv/xvi]
CIH 1645.34–1649.42
lacuna
Aiii =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 3, second part, ff. 13-16 [s. xv/xvi]
CIH 1636.32–1645.33
lacuna
Aiv =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 3, second part, ff. 13-16 [s. xv/xvi]
CIH 1632.3–1636.8
B =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 20, pp. 629–660 [s. xvi (?)]
CIH 1066.16–1068.3
C =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 14, pp. 399–438
CIH 925.1–945.40. The end is missing and there are gaps at 928.7 and 943.26.
D =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1433 (E 3. 5) [s. xv ?]
CIH 250.1–337.36
E =
like version A, a version whose original arrangement in the manuscript is disturbed. It now comprises the following segments:
Ei =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 Q 6 (1243) [s. xv + s. xvi]
part 2
CIH 1186.1–1192.4
Eii =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 90 3, first part, ff. 9-12 [s. xv/xvi]
CIH 1623.15–1632.2
Eiii =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 Q 6 (1243) [s. xv + s. xvi]
part 2
CIH 1151.3–1158.25
Eiv =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 Q 6 (1243) [s. xv + s. xvi]
part 2
CIH 1158.26–1185.26
F =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 3 C, ff. 24-25 [s. xv/xvi?]
part 3
CIH 1254.16–1260.15. The end is wanting.
G =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 3 C, ff. 24-25 [s. xv/xvi?]
part 4
CIH 1260.16–1265.30. This copy is acephalous.
Citations forthcoming
Language
  • Old Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  
comments: numbered pp. 1–337; diplomatic edition of legal material three manuscripts: the Bodleian manuscripts Rawlinson B 487 and Rawlinson B 506, and TCD 1433 (E 3. 5).
250.1–337.36 TCD 1433
Binchy, D. A. [ed.], Corpus iuris Hibernici, 7 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.  

Numbered pp. 745–1138; diplomatic edition of legal material from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (continued, pp. 745–1109); Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (pp. 1111–1138).

925.1–945.19; etc.
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

[‘Appendix 2’] Edition from RIA D v 2
Hancock, W. Neilson, Thaddeus OʼMahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson [ed. and tr.], Ancient laws of Ireland, 6 vols, vol. 3: Senchus Mor (conclusion): being the Corus bescna ... and the Book of Aichill, Stationery Office: Dublin, 1873.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
83–547 Edition based on TCD 1433, with English translation. The text is here entitled Lebar Aicle.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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